Destiny Quote by Marcel Marceau

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment –…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching…

— John Eaton

I don't know what draws these other composers to opera, but for me, it's just this incredibly rich medium for storytelling. And no matter…

— Stephen Schwartz

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

— Alexander McCall Smith

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and…

— Wanda Landowska

Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art…

— Franz Liszt

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

— Aristotle

Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends…

— Leopold Stokowski

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain…

— Brian Eno

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

— Charles Hazlewood